skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be mildly shocked if it was, because (a) the relevant bits of QEMU are under GPL or LGPL, and it doesn't seem very likely that you could get $1.3m investment for a product you'd have to GPL, and (b) if you're interested purely in userspace application translation (and especially if you are happy to restrict to a single guest and single host architecture) then you can almost certainly come up with a better-suited design for that than QEMU (which is rather generalised and focused more on system emulation than userspace).
You are painting a rosy picture of entrepreneurial life in Berlin. That's fine, but entrepreneurship in Germany has several downsides including:

-Less VC funding
-Regulations make it distinctly harder and more expensive to fire employees
-A less risk-tolerant culture
-A completely different mindset around "misses" - if your business fails once, you are labelled as a failure and will have a harder time getting support and funding in the future.

The economist had a touchstone article on this, which appeared on HN the other day:
http://www.economist.com/node/21559618
First, I don't disagree with anything you said. I just was trying to demonstrate how non-hackers and marketing types think.

To be honest, I think they see Facebook as almost an "end-around" to having to deal with internal IT/web folks.
This clearly shows how laggard Siri is when compared to Google search. This is how things are at present. Google clearly has an edge in this area. I agree that Apple will keep working and improving Siri, but there are many problems in the road which Google can solve much better than Siri can.

When Apple doesn't allow Google search because it is competing with Siri(Ssshh.. actually, it's a lot better than Siri), I am losing as a user.

I wish both companies can work together. In an ideal world for users, the backend technology is powered by Google and the interface and interaction is designed by Apple. That will make a groundbreaking product for sure.
Eh, I'm not worried about demographics in my lifetime.

The birthrate declines in industrialized nations are only a problem if you're an optimistic xenophobe and imagine that borders are going to stay shut. The younger end of the workforce in industrialized nations will be taken over by immigrants from countries with exploding birthrates like Africa or India, and the dreaded population implosion won't happen.

Maybe another N decades later once countries with exploding birthrates sort their shit out we might be at risk of an upside-down pyramid, but I think it's just as likely that we'll gradually oscillate around the replacement birthrate until we reach a comfortable steady-state population.

Once we hit steady state population, I think we'll be fine. Assuming we don't back-slide on industrialization (say, if post-peak fossil fuels make everything prohibitively expensive), we're already massively over-supplied on labor. Despite its far-below-replacement birthrates and a hearty helping of xenophobia, Europe's suffering from a demand crisis, not a labor crisis. The US peaked at a 63% employment ratio, pre-crash. I don't have the slightest doubt that we could maintain a pretty nice civilization with an employment ratio of 40%. I wouldn't be surprised if a 25% employment ratio is doable with the right social infrastructure to allocate resources.

As long as there is enough labor, it's all just bizarre math. Say in 2050 the total personal income in the US is $27 trillion in 2012 dollars (2% yearly growth above inflation from today). The population of the US has grown to about 400 million (assuming a 0.9% growth rate, it'd be 437 million, but 400 million is nice and round). With a 25% employment ratio, that $27 trillion gets divided 100 million ways, so the average income in 2050 would be $270,000 in 2012 dollars. Right now the average income is about $70,000.

Now to tax it. Right now the total US government tax revenues are about $5 trillion. We're running a helluva deficit, so let's add another $1 trillion for a balanced budget. Apply the same 2%-above-inflation growth as we did for income, and the US tax revenues in 2050 should be about $12.7 trillion in 2012 dollars. There are also more people on the dole, so let's increase the budget by another 50%, to $19 trillion, and the average tax burden in 2050 is $190,000 / (working) person.

End result, the total tax rate in 2050 is about 70%, compared to a tax rate of about 38% in the US now. After-tax income in 2050 is $80,000 / person, after-tax income in 2012 is $43,000 / person. Productive workers have more after-tax income than they do today, and the unproductive elderly are still comfortably cared for by the government, individual savings or no.
>I know absolutely nothing about Ruby, is it as useful outside of the web framework as python is?

Ruby is used a lot for sysadmin, systems management stuff (more than Python, surprisingly, because of good tooling). It's also used for stuff like iOS development (RubyMotion), and general purpose scripting.

That said, _is_ there anything of importance happening "outside of the web" nowadays?
Are dying and being replaced by mobile, partly, for this same reason.

http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/when-the-consoles-die-wha...
Functional Programming for… by Brian Marick [PDF/iPad/Kindle]
I think the release cycle of new product lines are much longer for Apple. The jump from iPod to iPhone was significant from an innovation standpoint, but it can be debated that the iPad is just a bigger iPod touch (released in 2007). So it's been roughly a 5-6 year cycle of a new product line. We're ending the cycle soon, and everyone is only talking about the iPhone 5 and iPad mini. As far as I know, the rumor mill has not given the public any kind of notion on what's next.
That's not actually sufficient when you consider version requirements; for example requiring a specific range of libc or the like.
How OkCupid deals with ad-blockers
Yeah they're essentially identical platforms in terms of interaction. Reading a stream, replying, retweeting/reposting etc...

They already have multi-user support, I'd rather interact with one app in this way. Or better, have the client merge your two accounts so that app.net/twitter become seamless and instead of thinking about who is on where, you simply enjoy it through the window of your client and none of that matters.

But.. I'm sure it took some good work to develop this and by simply updating Tweetbot they might not get reimbursed for that dev time. Rather, the new app must've been required.

I look forward to an integrated client down the road.
Greece has a population of about 11 million. That's slightly (20%) more than the population of Michigan, capital Detroit. Let's not pretend that US taxpayers aren't bailing out anyone.
Maybe the eBay bit: Silk Road uses zero auction features (if you don't like a price, you can either not buy, or buy from a different vendor), you can't sign up to be a seller for free, and the general experience is more comparable to using Amazon's third-party sellers.
More than a grudge motive, wouldn't that be straight-up perjury? If I remember my own experience correctly, we were under oath during jury selection.
This is awesome! I love that Mars continues to baffle, astound, and fascinate us. Sometimes our 21st century hubris makes us think we are reaching some kind of peak knowledge, but moments like this prove that we yet know so little.

In particular, the geology of Mars in an incredibly fascinating topic. If you're looking for a good primer on the subject, I highly recommend Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton.

Mapping Mars contains a history of the science, highlighting the major contributors to the field and augmented with interviews from such notable science fiction authors as Kim Stanley Robinson. A good discussion is, for example, how much water exists on the planet. Consensus is now that there is water somewhere, but exactly how much water, where it sits, how it flows: great questions that are attacked with lucid explanations.

Hats off to NASA and human curiosity for this grand adventure.
Code Density Concerns for New Architectures [pdf]
Two people could register accounts, using their own names, addresses and credit cards, from different computers and Internet connections, with different ISPs from some geographical locations sufficiently far apart (e.g. different countries). Then, they would buy the same stuff and strip the meta-data from the files. Next, they hash their files and compare the hashes, by only telling each other half of the hash.

E.g., person 1 would tell person 2 that the first 32 characters of the sha-256 hash (represented as a hexadecimal string) was "47905a1f67a826d1ca5321e3473266d9". Person 2 tells person 1 that the remaining 32 characters are "7616ac096cb069098bcd2e12b2ed0c0d".

In our scenario, these two people have no interest in tricking each other - so they use the files that they bought and tell the truth when stating their part of the hash. The company from which the files were bought are assumed to not know that these two people are working together, since they might otherwise serve the same watermark to the two people.

Edit: In fact, these "two people" could even be just one guy who traveled to a foreign country, purchased a brand new computer, a pre-payed card, went to a library and registered with bogus details, bought some files. Then, s/he traveled to another country where s/he did the same thing (new computer, pre-payed card, went to some Internet café and used other, bogus, details to buy the same files) and compared the hashes as described above.

Edit 2: Or, s/he could order the pre-payed cards online, bought from two separate resellers using bitcoins, and use two separate VPN-s (also paid for with bitcoins) from a computer that was assumed to not leak any sensitive information (because the computer was bought for this purpose, and therefore never used for anything that could be tied to him/her, s/he used an Open Source Operating System, and s/he switched out the NIC and the USB-stick used to boot the computer between each time), with each VPN session being made from different places sufficiently away from your home, and at times sufficiently far apart (3-6 months, maybe).
Nuances matter, and being cautious in respect to change is not the same (at all) as being afraid of it. I love Python and don't mind refactoring code from time to time if I perceive a benefit from doing it.

I think the "conservative" feeling comes from the fact that there's no immediate need to rush into Python3. Many changes were backported to version 2 and it has been a useful and dependable language for many years. So we have a good situation in which we can take our time to refactor the code and make the final transition when we feel it's ready.

On the other hand, the OP conflates changes in the language with changes in the applications built with it, which is an error. The Python community is very happy using the language in projects with cutting edge features and uses. You have to look further than just Django, at Scipy or Biopython in order to see that. In that respect the community is more eager of change than the one surrounding Ruby, which is mainly oriented to web development.
AMERICAN Government Forces Re-Start of Japanese Nuclear Reactors
I don't see the changes from Py2 to Py3 as that big either.

I mean, they broke compatibility just for THOSE? Talk about a lost chance...
> A list of startups that failed before 2001

Disclosure, I wrote this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1416577939
I didn't. First time I read about it.

Either way it doesn't seem very constructive - or gentlemanly - to downvote an informed - and depending on the reader informative - comment.
Apple has consistently avoided cheaping out to compete in the lower-end market.

Consumer and press response would probably be "Apple has fallen off the wagon, they're making crap now", not "Apple's moving into the lower-end market".
According to http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#countermeasures you're entirely correct that it won't raise any error, although the keys won't be dropped: attr_accessible drops the attributes when mass-assigned to a model, they're still available in the params hash.
There are pretty easy ways around this e.g. require new immigrants to put enough money in escrow to cover a trip back to their home country and prevent them from claiming any sort of state benefits for a certain period.

Regardless, I don't really think many immigrants go to another country just to be unemployed and claim benefits, especially for the people we're talking about here (those from developed Western countries who want to come to the US to be entrepreneurs/work in tech), which makes me think people are really concerned about wage deflation rather than anything else.
Thanks all for the leads. Hetzner are seriously low priced, impressive.

In the end we've gone for co-location, we tried to avoid this due to the hassles we've had in the past around physical access.

I guess this workload isn't a great fit for the cloud just yet. Maybe some day!
You don't have to use a rover. What about a quadcopter or balloon filled with heated gas?
Parag Khanna on the Revolutions and the Coming 'Hybrid Reality'
This is a great example of solid writing that transcends the specific knowledge of any community. The nouns are all familiar, but the story would resonate even if they weren't. It's just about being human, and doing human stuff.

Also, thanks for building something awesome.
A Tale of a Server Architecture
I think she definitely cut her ties to the VC world by doing this which is why it's such a big deal despite none of us knowing who she is- she's either forfeiting her career to take a stand, or she's forfeiting her career for money/attention. Which possibility sounds more probable? I don't know.

The only thing I know about her is an article from when this lawsuit first came out saying her married boss gave her a book on sex poetry with a handwritten note inside of it. She claimed he would often make suggestive remarks and the others wouldn't invite her to parties with founders bc having a woman would "kill the buzz" (Is this tenable? Do men think women kill the buzz? I always get invited to stuff but I don't know if I'm missing special male tech networking parties). Those claims sound really gross and easily testable- if she has the book then they should fire that guy and if witnesses come forward saying they had all-male VC-founder parties then that's evidence of gender affecting her networking and career.
Engineers are hard to come by Here’s some ‘big data’ software to the rescue
As noblogs.org is completely no-profit, and anonymous as much as possible, and does not contain ads, linkbait is not an option :)

Of course, this isn't anything new for some audience, but I think that is an indipendent media blog, so the story can still fit its audience.
There is a fundamental difference between well written Android applications and iOS ones. iOS apps are expected to run as an island. Everything they want to do should be included into the binary. There is essentially one entry point (a main() equivalent). Think of it like a statically linked binary (which it mostly is).

Well written Android applications are structured like mashups. There is no main. There are multiple entry points for screens (aka Activities) as well as entry points for processing (Services), data (ContentProviders) and even a mechanism (BroadcastReceiver) for telling all interested apps about events (eg battery charge level changing, incoming calls, apps being installed). There is a mechanism for decoupled communication (Intents) which allow specification of a verb (eg VIEW, PICK, DIAL, EDIT) and one or more bits of accompanying data (eg text, urls, images). It is trivial to bring up/use part of another app that didn't even exist at the time yours was released and have the experience combined. (You can always tell iOS apps ported to Android because they don't do mashups or collaborate with the apps already on your system.)

This means that an iOS app will never be improved by other apps installed on the system, while Android ones can be. And because of Intents it becomes possible for a user to choose their own experience - want to use a different browser or app for viewing images? No problem. For example I installed the GitHub app on Android and it added itself to the AccountManager. Now other apps can collaborate with it (eg it supports the SEND verb which creates a Gist) or ask it to display an issue/user/commit.

The (long winded) point behind this is that app installations are far more valuable to Android users. If things were only decided on technical merit then Android will end up nailing iOS because of this. But that walled garden sure looks nice to many people, and it is rare for users to really notice what is going on and they definitely won't have both devices to continually contrast and compare.
Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts
Fortune 500 Company Urging Employees Not to Upgrade to iOS 6 Over Exchange Bug
Widening Battle: Middle East Cyberattacks Target Oil Producers and U.S. Banks
It's hard to understand how byzantine and ridiculous the immigration system is unless you've been through it.

I have no idea whose interest it is currently serving - I know for a fact not America's though.
Still not sure why I'm supposed to care about app.net enough to pay $5/mo.
Your statement that "H1B/L1B can not start a side business" is factually incorrect. Any legal non immigrant can start a business, who he/she cannot work for it. That's the problem.
There's at least one shortcut that uses control, option, shift, and command, ⌃⌥⇧⌘., which saves a sysdiagnose report to /var/tmp/.

The reason why key combinations like ⌥← don't work with Unicode Hex Input is probably because they aren't assigned to control characters. I got ⌥← to work after adding this to keymap 3 in the Unicode Hex Input.keylayout that comes with Ukelele:

<key code="123" output="&#x001c;"/>

You could also use DefaultKeyBinding.dict for inserting Greek characters, but it wouldn't work in Xcode or shell views. (See http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/KeyBindings/Greek%20Bi...) Another option would be to add keymaps to a keylayout file:

<keyMapSelect mapIndex="8">
<modifier keys="caps"/>
</keyMapSelect>
<keyMapSelect mapIndex="9">
<modifier keys="caps anyShift"/>
</keyMapSelect>

...

<keyMap index="8">
<key code="0" output="α"/>
<key code="1" output="σ"/>

To assign another key to a holdable caps lock, check "Pass-Through CapsLock LED status" and add something like this to private.xml:

<autogen>
--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::N,
Option::KEYTOKEY_BEFORE_KEYDOWN,
KeyCode::CAPSLOCK,
Option::KEYTOKEY_AFTER_KEYUP,
KeyCode::CAPSLOCK
</autogen>

I thought something like this might also work:

<autogen>
--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::A,
ModifierFlag::OPTION_R,
KeyCode::A,
Option::KEYTOKEY_BEFORE_KEYDOWN,
KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTMODE_RUSSIAN,
KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
Option::KEYTOKEY_AFTER_KEYUP,
KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTMODE_FINNISH
</autogen>

Unicode Hex Input or Greek is not included in inputsourcedef.xml though.
Microsoft writes most of its software in C++. They love C++. If C# wasn't the only case then it might be acceptable. DirectX, for example, was done to kill off OpenGL. Microsoft hired away Borland's language team, including the Delphi developer and proceeded to build a better Java that only ran well on Windows, and some might say that they accomplished this. :-)

Objective C was developed before Steve Jobs and he simply adopted it, or his engineers did at NeXT. Personally, I'd like open languages/platforms that offer a little more reuse.
App.net will get lots of hackers and people in our community, but in terms of reaching critical mass ... I don't think it will work.

People join twitter now out of societal pressure. "What is this thing? What is this ad on the subway that says I should follow them on twitter? Who's this athlete that is now Kobe Bryant with a strange @username at the end of his name?"

Developers, techy individuals, and people who consume twitter at a high level are more inclined to pay for it.

People who casually use it to help trend the latest hashtag about #whatmenreallywantfromawoman could care less. They're not going to pay a yearly fee for this, especially when the line between this and twitter is very blurry.

p.s. I am an app.net user and own a copy of netbot.
Swedish authorities raid on PRQ prompts new cyber attack from Anonymous
Matthew Inman used the characters from Breaking Bad for an in-depth analysis called the Proximity to Violence vs. Amount of Hair on One's Head
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/breaking_bad_hair
They have committed to supporting open standards like Activity Streams, PubSubHubBub, and Webfinger. While not OStatus explicitly, it looks like the majority of OStatus will be supported.

http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak
For internships, is this paid or unpaid?
Good luck.. the highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km above the Earth's surface
Debate Pivots: How Politicians Get Away With Dodging The Question
> I feel like it's done to create friction whenever employees want to take time off which feels a bit insidious. And it creates the feeling that some folks are freeloading.

It's exactly that. The idea that people are more productive if all they do is work, for 50 hours a week or more, is such an insanely stupid notion. But I hear it time and again from founders who expect employees with a 0.5% stake to put in as much time as a founder who has a 30% stake.

Even founders should keep their work hours under control--they set the tone for the company, and a workaholic tone isn't healthy. People just burn out, they feel demoralized, and it creates conflict.

Working less also forces you to make hard decisions, to prioritize and focus.

Finally, founders should be HAPPY that employees take time off. It rejuvenates them and makes them that much more excited to get back to work. And often when they're not in the heads-down grind--when their mind is relaxed--they come up with some very good ideas.
I don't know about that. Consoles tend to have strict certification requirements, and presumably the manufacturer gets a cut of game sales, both of which are reasons to prevent sideloading unrelated to piracy.
One thing that I wonder about with respect to Bitcoin is the issue of taxation. Governments can support the dominance of their currency within their borders by compelling their citizens to pay taxes in the national currency.

And on the "supply-side", in the US at least, federal spending is a significant portion of GDP, so you will always have a large amount of dollars floating around being used as a means of credit, exchange, and value.

And finally, having control of interest rates is a powerful tool to support economic growth - I would be fearful of a world where policymakers did not have that ability.
I'm in! Looking forward to it.
I'm no server admin, but it seems to be a recurring theme where big issues are narrowed down to disk space running out. Is there not something that can automatically check this and send out alerts?
I didn't know that about the ASR-33 (haven't actually seen one), all my experience has been with unix and PC keyboards (plus some WYSE terminals).

I agree with it being confusing to have the same key jump around while you type, which is why I gave up re-mapping altogether (at my last job I was using 5 different systems that each would have required a remap, and I wasn't able to remap on each system). To much dissonance when trying to figure out why a key is not doing what you think it should be doing.
Show HN: Shoeboxify is your shoebox for Facebook
This is marketed to (potential and current) API users, not iOS users. They have been getting some competition after their move to charge for API usage.
Cool stuff! Semi-vague messaging working better for you goes against any intuition I ever had about landing page conversion